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Wikipedia at "Heritage Commons", the conference of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Presentation "The role of Wikipedia and its community in cultural production and in supporting the heritage sector " by Iolanda Pensa for the conference "Heritage Commons: Towards a participative heritage governance in the third millennium”, session "Digital technology as an enabler, for new narratives of heritage, new ways of supporting heritage as a collective resource, and new means of increasing access to heritage and developing new audiences”, Royal Palace of the Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy, 24 settembre 2014.

With 500 million readers, 30 million articles in 280 languages and around 80,000 contributors, Wikipedia is a powerful and existing tool to increase access to heritage and to support heritage as a collective resource. Wikipedia online communities are already active in creating encyclopedic knowledge for everyone: they produce texts, images and translations, they respect copyright, they support institutions in providing open content for Wikipedia, and they have engaged with the contest Wiki Loves Monuments over 15’000 participants in 50 countries to produce 900,000 images documenting cultural heritage. Wikipedia recognizes the value of culture and it is an ally in heritage development; governments and institutions can play a key role in facilitating volunteer contributions with authorizations and freedom of panorama, and in acknowledging the value of this active citizenship supporting the heritage sector.

Wikipedia at "Heritage Commons", the conference of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

1.
The role of Wikipedia and its community in cultural production and in supporting the heritage sector. Heritage Commons, 24/09/2014.
Iolanda Pensa, SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. io@pensa.it - http://iopensa.it
Credits: Bili Bidjocka, Ecriture Infinie, http://www.ecritureinfinie.org.

21.
Photo uploaded Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Taking a photo of a monument and uploading it on Wikipedia. Wikipedia under the free license Creative Commons attribution share alike, allowing commercial use.

22.
Authorization
from the artist
Authorization
from the owner
List of monuments
Georeferentiating
the monument
Authorization from institutions
overseeing heritage
Photo uploaded Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Really, taking a photo of a monument and uploading it on Wikipedia. Wikipedia under the free license Creative Commons attribution share alike, allowing commercial use.

23.
(Authorization
from the artist)
(Authorization
from the owner)
List of monuments and
your content about heritage
Open data about
heritage
Authorization from institutions
overseeing heritage
Photo uploaded
Providing also
your photos
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Facilitating the upload of photos of monuments on Wikipedia: open licenses, open data, authorizations (for commercial use), freedom of panorama.

25.
Example of citation on Wikipedia:
Lisa Van Woersem in cooperation with Robert Oosterhuis, The Netherlands: Cultural Policy Profile in
Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, Council of Europe and European Institute for
Comparative Cultural Research, 04-02-2014.

26.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical:
it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach
and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
!
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008